['House  Bill,  No.  61.] 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVE?.— May  9,  186^-Read  first 

and  second  times,  referred  to  Military  Committee,  and  ordered  to  be 
printed. 

[By  Mr.  Hilton.] 


m  A   BILL 

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To  be,  entitled  an  act  to  increase  the  pay  of  the  Non- Commissioned  Officers 

and  Privates  of  the  Army  <f  the  Confederate  States. 

Section  1.    The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  do  enact, 

2  That  the  pay  of  the  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  en- 

0  gaged  in  the  military  service  of  the  Confederate  States  be  and 

1  the  same  is  hereby  increase^  fifty  per  centum. 

Sec.  -'.   To  meet  the  increased  expenditures  of  the  govern- 

2  ment,  incurred  by  the  passage  of  this  act,  an  additional  tax  of 

3  ten  per  centum  is  hereby  levied  upon  the  value  of  all  cotton, 

4  tobacco  (manufactured  or  unmanufactured),  naval  stores,  wines 

5  and  spirituous   liquors,  wool,  salt,   bacon,  wheat,   flour,  sugar, 

6  molasses,  syrup,  corn,  oats,  rice  and  other  agricultural  products 

7  held  or  owned  on  the  first  day  of  July  next,  and  not  necessary 

8  for   family  consumption    for   the   unexpired    term   of  the.   year 

9  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-four,  and  of  the  growth  and  produc- 
10  tion  of  any  year  preceding  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  sixtv- 
1 J   four. 


